The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks
the distance was so short. The Hawkins House was on Mason Street. A short walk brought th
said Quincy, as they stood on the corner of Sawyer Street. "There's Ad
would rather have a street named after
ill Street and soon reached her brother's house. Huld
here are your things? You are
," said Quincy. "We have been in town but
o be with us," and Huldah's face s
plied. "Mrs. Putnam died in this house, and Alice has
ldah, "but you must com
zekiel?" a
ay-about sixty tons this year.
esake-Quincy Ad
s grandpa and grandma. Abner
high state of cultivation, and the house and outbuildings were in good repair and freshly painted. Inside, the careful attention of a competent housekeeper was apparent. Huldah Pettingill was a finer looking woman than
Mamma" were heard outside and four year old Quincy Adams Pet
ck would," said Abner-then his eyes f
ds failed him as Quincy ga
shake hands all round the night of the show an' I went home." He looked at his right hand, rubbed it s
old-time grin that had pleased Obadiah Strout on some occas
mother at home
n helpin' her to-day, and the Dekin's
he black mare into the low phaeton and bring them up here. Don't
-cords. His face was brown, but his beard was neatly trimmed, and his eyes bright. He was a picture of robust, healthy manhood, and showed what he was,-a hard-working, independent Ne
fine farm,"
l I can raise. Strout and Maxwell buy a great deal of garden truck, and I se
p. He became communicative. "I've got
Alice. "I'm your Aunt Alice,
. Abner comes after him every afternoon and takes him down to the D
d new arrivals, and Huldah went to th
son. "I don't think I'll go in. I did
better," said Quincy, steppin
up to the Town Hall that night, for I didn't feel first-rate and Sophia didn't want to go al
ve put up the mare, Mr. Pettingill
and help Susie,
better than to take supper with Susie and pass the evening in her company. He's
a December and May mar
said the Deacon. "I should s
during his four months' residence at Mason's Corner, formed the principal topics of conversation, and Alice appreciated more fully tha
kins House Mrs. Hawkins w
n to Cottonton and my man Andrew brought him over. I told him you wou
Quincy, "when I find out w
Ferry or something like that. H
ething has turned up at the State Ho
ins called out, "Oh, Mr. Sawyer, there was a
s to say. Something very important or she wouldn't write." As he op
love to
cy r
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the coat up with an oar. I gave it to father and he examined the wallet with apparently great interest. Perhaps he thought there was some money in it, but there wasn't. There were some visiting cards bearing the name Col. Arthur Spencer, but nary a red. Fath
t it seems funny that nobody ever invited me to visit Fernborough. Please don
AU
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ed Alice, "that Maude
lamenta
n't com
r,-hand-cuffed
overnor of Colorado for the extradition of a Pole named Ivan Wolaski, who
ked into the
k it is part of a
ration for an imm
rry. Will you have Andrew get a team ready for me? I w
id she. "You've dr
Alice? I must go to the State House on bu
e saddled and have a ride out to
After dinner go down to Mandy Maxwell's and see her and the children, and
t Mrs. Hawkins had gone out to the stable
ins, have you some spare stalls in yo
rself. It's a leetle further from the
cy pointed out the objects of interest to Mr.
ay over Sunday. Bring down any important letters.
ation. Love is blind. If he had reflected, he would have come to the conclusion that the daughter of the H
e had nearly an hour at his disposal. His first visit was to the Eagle Hotel, where
ow we railroaded Strout
t and I are good friends now. He's one o
ve bee
aside and had an animate
nt, Guv'nor. Kind and gentle bu
wkins House and don'
the telegraph office, whe
MAUDE
w, Redfo
o o'clock. Leave your trunk a
INC
y met Tobias Smith, father of Abbott
Strout's job of tax-collector to-he's held it ever since. We're mighty glad Str
and proprietor, Mr. Sylvester Chisholm, Mr. Strout's brother-in-law, could not get printers in Fernborough, and, b
ng his speech at the Town Hall. On looking it ove
Mr. Chisholm? My addre
working on the Eastborough Express, when you were here five ye
se of Ivan Wolaski, he decided to refuse the request for extradition, and the Governor of Colorado was so notified in a communication which fro
cted Maude to enter, but it was Mr. Acton, the en
form you that we shall apply for injunctions just the same as if that bill y
that," said the governor, "but
" asked
to prevent you and a score of others from
foolish. No judge wo
ed in 'peaceful picketing'? Why should not the working man have the
ent: "But the probable destruction of
lied. "They are under the jurisdiction of the po
rgument advanced, "was o
r the messenge
. Does any one
y outside. She's bee
his watch. It was
her, at
r astonishing telegram, Quincy, and was here
it mean? Is
re you would come to please her, that I ignored your refusal to accept an invitation from me
ncy had played a trick on her a
o the station. When the train was under way Quincy remarked, casually,
cy could not have desired a more talkative or vivacious comp
sound. I went up with the